This post is so late that some of the movies have came and gone, but I didn't want to skip a month, so it'll partially be a review post too. I have only watched two movies so far this month, so that won't be hard.
I was talking to my colleagues the other day, and the topic got around to how they would never walk out of a movie halfway, no matter how much they dislike it, because they felt that it was just so rude and disrespectful (to the filmmakers and their efforts in making the film, I suppose). And it reminded me of The Revenant. Because I absolutely hated it.
What is there to say about Spectre, except that it is a typical Bond movie?
In the words of one of the numerous reviewers raving over Mad Max: Fury Road: "See. That. Damn. Movie."
What can I say about Fast & Furious 7 (or Furious 7, as it is known in the U.S.), which I haven't already said about Fast & Furious 6? Or any other film in the franchise, for that matter?
A movie that is light on plot, heavy on action. But what awesome action it is! Definitely Keanu Reeves' best since The Matrix.
Gone Girl was absolutely -- to borrow a word from the film -- *amazing*. The story is superb, supplemented with top-notch acting by Rosamund Pike…
Denzel Washington as man-with-a-secret-past Robert McCall in The Equalizer The Equalizer is an old school vigilante action thriller. (How old school? There is a classic…
If you like conspiracy thrillers like Flightplan and Unknown, and action movies like Taken, you'll surely like Non-Stop, which melds all these genres in a film put together specially for Liam Neeson, the star of the latter two movies. A Hitchcockian thriller set in the confines of an airplane, Non-Stop keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering whodunit, whydunit, howdunit, what-on-earth-is-it, and coming up with some fairly ludicrous theories along the way in your bid to preempt the reveal.
Some Russians living in the past are planning the collapse of the U.S. economy, and it's up to a brilliant CIA analyst to stop them. If this plot sounds familiar, it's because every other action movie ever made, save those about unstoppable vehicles or sci-fi elements (and sometimes not even then), has it, give or take a few minor changes: the nationality of the villains, the "thing" they want to collapse, the government organisation of the hero's vocation.
